sportsball more importanter than your nerd stuff.

regards: spanish authorities (who are watching the sportsball and so are better spaniards than you!)

This. No other platforms has a system akin to CN's. For me personally, I could never stand using any platform that is aggressively tone policed towards whatever official truth. Not Truth Social, not BlueSky.

Other places are like playgrounds, X is where the adults go to talk.

> any platform that is aggressively tone policed

all platforms are tone policed, yes even real life. If you don't notice it, you're either not looking, or you agree with the tone.

Not all platforms are agressive about the tone-policing and "real life" is not a platform. AFAIK, we still don't live in a world where the moneyed class get to set the rules about who is allowed to exist in "real life".

Also: scale and context matters. Someone telling you to shut up on a movie theater is not out of place, but whoever was next to you in the theater does not get to decide what you say in a bar or a PTA meetiing.

> AFAIK, we still don't live in a world where the moneyed class get to set the rules about who is allowed to exist in "real life".

I mean thats just the legal system, its also deciding what is taught in schools, or churches (other religions are available). Currently in the USA there is "tone policing" about trans people. Laws are being put in place to enforce a certain style of living for people who are trans. Regardless of you opinion of trans people, that is very much real life tone policing.

> but whoever was next to you in the theatre does not get to decide what you say in a bar or a PTA meeting.

but the people in the bar/PTA meeting do. In the same way that newspaper decide who to publish, TV which programmes to air, student organisations what cause to adopt, charities what people to fight for.

I think you are saying that one organisation doesn't get to control the patterns and types of speech for an entire country, which is mostly true apart from a authoritarian places.

But, each platform has its own tone, be that X, bluesky, the local darts club, PTA, or church. that tone is enforced by the people who support/take part in that platform. Those rules vary by factions that live on those platforms. The issue with X/bluesky etc is that they make money by deliberately forcing separate factions to engage. If you fall out with your local pub, you find a different pub, and hopefully never see those people again. But that pub is selling you pints, not advertising. so it needs to keep you happy to keep you buying pints.

> justify the absurdity that present-day Twitter is.

Present day twitter is one man's increasingly sad slide into authoritarian/contrarianism. It is a mess of idiocy and malignant individualism.

My point is, that twitter is nothing different, it has it's own tone. If you notice it, then twitter is not the place for you anymore. If you don't then twitter is the right place for you.

> My point is, that twitter is nothing different

And my point is that Twitter is different because it has become a direct instrument from one single man to proselytize and shape the conversation.

> If you notice it, then twitter is not the place for you anymore. If you don't then twitter is the right place for you

By your logic, I don't belong anywhere because I notice the tone everywhere.

If the OP had (incorrectly) rounded 130B to 200B, OP's point would have still been perfectly understandable and correct. Your odd quibble about rounding completely misses the point. Whooosh.

Kinda cool but seems paltry during a time when we have Starlink, which also has space-to-space laser links between satellites, of 100-200Gbps in bandwidth.

Though I suppose this is a bit safer from Kessler syndrome

Expected something like deep explanations of why the kind of solutions used for video calling don't scale so easily due to not being able to use as simplistic and well understood server-side solutions like HLS or something.

But this is basically "A and B are different because A is used in different words than B is. Buy our proprietary alphabet give us money now".

How is one supposed to just accept this as part and parcel in the free world itself.

Humanity is imperfect/flawed…that’s how.

Because Adam was a spawn of a greater society.

It's better to read of what he thought of and learn from that, than to try to align oneself to the weird anti-human reaction his passing has raised from the woodwork.

Good god this is not good news. I knew Dilbert as long as I could read. The man as a thinker only fairly recently. To no loss.

The world is less without him.

Thought the product looks good for a prototype, but crazy as a published product.

Then found out it's a closed beta.

So ... ok? Closed beta test is doing what such a test is supposed to do. Sure, ideally the issue would have been figured out earlier, especially if this is a design issue and the parsing needs to be thought out again, but this is still reasonably inside the layers of redundancy for catching these kinds of things amicably.

Damn. And no large-scale military activity in play.

I hardly see how this could be considered anything but an absolute win, especially where Maduro has been considered being more and more authoritarian, rejecting democracy, and probably would've been willing to sacrifice thousands of lives in a ground war if this increasing threat was handled less finely.

Add to this the fact that Venezuela has crazy amounts of oil BUT a totally mismanaged and badly exploited extraction operation and the economy is in the toilet. Unless this somehow leads in to a Libya situation, everyone could benefit from this, compared to the hopelessness of the past.

> this increasing threat

What threat? There is no threat to the US from Venezuela. This is another Banana war.

> I hardly see how this could be considered anything but an absolute win

It has only been a few hours, so nobody knows what is going to follow. Even if US does not engage further this may well trigger a civil war in Venezuela with massive casualties.